Urban Design and Management in Brief

Measures of Success

• Change in Number of Code Violations issued in Downtown
• Increase in the # of Urban Friendly Trees Downtown
• Increase in the # Parking Lots Adequately Screened and Landscaped
• Number of Restored Storefronts/Buildings
• Decrease in the % of Downtown Covered by Surface Parking
• Increase in the % of Downtown Covered by Greenscape
• % Of Streets, Blocks, Building Enhanced according to Standards
• % Of streets Adequately and Properly Signed according to Standards

Top Rules of Urban Design and Management

• “It’s Simple Stuff”
• Ongoing and Systematic Code Enforcement (maintain assets by protecting them)
• Adopt a sense of Stewdarship/Advocacy for Downtown
• Downtown Block Club – Soft Advocacy
• Demolition/Parking
• Reinvest in Main Street Mall, Capital improvements
• Trees/Landscape, Greenscape
• Gateways
• Urban Design Inventory (backlog of maintenance and repair, prioritize)
• Make the Economic Argument (use economic realities to drive issue forward – the look of Downtown is an impediment)

Existing Projects

• Improved Lighting in Main Street
• 33 Gateway Project
• Buffalo Place Planning Committee Aesthetics Hit List

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